Has anyone had trouble with SN Hobbies? I ordered spare FlySky TX (Only) from them on July 23rd and payed with paypal, so they have my money, but the order is still in processing. Are they always so slow to ship things?

BlueFFF

I emailed them asking weather or not they would be getting any more Tx/Rx combo's in and they said they didn't expect more in any time soon however they answered my emials right away.

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Originally Posted by BlueFFF
Has anyone had trouble with SN Hobbies? I ordered spare FlySky TX (Only) from them on July 23rd and payed with paypal, so they have my money, but the order is still in processing. Are they always so slow to ship things?

BlueFFF

I ordered a Turborix 6 ch. transmitter on July 24th and emailed them on the 28th to see if it had been shipped because the order status said "processing." They promptly replied to my email and said it already had been shipped and gave me the tracking number. I checked with Canada Post and it was indeed shipped on the 27th. I just checked my order status again at the SN Hobbies website and it still says, "processing." Maybe yours has already been shipped also.

gkovachi,
Yes it has shipped! I just got a reply from them with the tracking info. Looks like it arrived in the Washington on the 28th and is in route to Texas now. USPS does not provide very detailed tracking of packages, but it should be here early this coming week I think.

Thanks everyone for listening,
BlueFFF

PS. I hope this TX works better then my last. I still need to convert it to 4 cell operation to see if that will fix it.

after spending the day building a f22 prop in a slot scratchbuilt i blew my turborix receiver while trying to hook it up to a new esc. the esc doesnt provide power to the radio. i hooked my lipo battery up directly to the receiver and it smoked.

hey guys! I just got a 6ch system and hooked it to my computer it found new hardware and worked in T6config the first time.. now when i plug the cable in it says "USB Device not recognized" im sure there is a fix for this but don't feel like reading through all these pages!

edwalsh18 posted at RCuniverse some photos of a different version of the Flysky system.

It seems much like the 4 ch systems (apparently, same motherboard), but with 2 extra channels driven by 2 switches on then top (Gear + ??).

Maybe this leads to the possibility of adding 2 extra channels to the 4 ch systems.

I'm not registered at RC Universe, so I'll have to answer your question there, here. From the first pic that Ed posted there, the right switch is labeled "Idel" with an S and an F denoting the two switch directions.

I have thought of a simple way to substitute a gear switch for one of the VR knobs, if that function is important to anyone. The VR pot is 5K, so all it takes is replacing the VR pot with a SPDT toggle switch and two 5K resistors.

Solder one 5K resistor from one end of the switch to the center pole, and do the same with the other 5K resistor from the other end to the center pole. Then remove the three wires from the VR and attach them to the switch in the same order.

Flip the switch one direction, it's the same as having the VR fully CCW. Flip the switch the other direction, and it's as if the pot were fully CW. Then through programming you can adjust endpoints and mix percentages.

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I knew I've seen that 6 channel radio before. There was one for sale here in the Radio FS/W forum a while back. It is a 6 channel 2.4 GHz that is permanently programmed to 120 degree swashplate heli mode, and was part of a RTF heli package.

What I meant was adding 2 extra channels to the 4 ch system, not modifying the 6 ch unit. The mainboard of that heli radio is exactly the same as the HK 4 ch (and different form the 6 ch one with knobs).

The problem is this 6 ch (the one with switches and same mainboard as 4 ch) is heli only, meaning mixes are not easily disableed (according to edwalsh18, and also after googling HDX6I), but could be these mixes are controlled by one of the uninstalled switches (see attachments), that might be jumpered in the heli version. Maybe we can check if edwalsh18 posts some more photos.

The key here is if it's the same mainboard with different firmwares, or only one firmware that reacts depending on these switches.

I've even seen 6 V caps in these receivers, somebody reported they blew with a 6 V BEC.

The good news is, after desoldering the capacitors, the RX was still working.

Maybe this could be captaingeek's case. The bubble is, more or less, where the capacitor is.

EEEKKK! Six volt caps in a device that is specked to six volts - doesn't seem like the designers have heard of design margin (or the margin is zero). Guess it might be prudent to swap out that one cap that is directly across the battery input for one that is ten volts or so, eh?
Walt

EEEKKK! Six volt caps in a device that is specked to six volts - doesn't seem like the designers have heard of design margin (or the margin is zero). Guess it might be prudent to swap out that one cap that is directly across the battery input for one that is ten volts or so, eh?
Walt

Caps are typically rated in working volts. So a 6 volt cap is designed to work continously at 6 volts. There is a margin built in to that design. However a 5 cell pack fresh off charge can be as high as 7.35 volts until the charge peak is drained off. You would need the cap spec sheet to determine how much over load it could stand for how long.

You are correct in that cap probably should be higher than 6 volts rated. I have found that no matter how much design margin you design in, a modeler somewhere will exceed it.

captain geek.
Major bummer there. How in the heck did you manage to hook up the receiver directly to the Lipo pack? You likely killed the servos as well with 12v applied to them.
The receivers are only rated to 5v. Anything over that is not good. They typically only have capacitors that are rated for around 6v, so even using 6 volts may be too much for them.
To use a ESC without a BEC built in, then you have to use a separate UBEC to provide the 5 volts from the same battery pack. You could use a Lipo pack for the motor and a separate nicad 4.8v reciever pack, or a smaller separate Lipo pack with a UBEC to drop the voltage down to safe levels for the receiver and servos.

The bubble on the receiver case implies the little voltage regulator inside burned up. If you have some electronics skills, you might be able to replace the voltage regulator and maybe a power input filter cap and get the receiver working again. They are probably using a small 3v regulator in there, nothing fancy considering how much the receiver costs. The regulator would protected the small mcu chip inside.